Cranberry picking machine



y 1945- A. M. LOBDELL CRANBERRY PICKING MACHINE Filed May 1, 1945 positioned between the sides have not previously been picked from and combed I I ate-the forwardend portion of out by those pickers in" advance thereof. the picker, receives the berries which are dis- It will be seen from this description that the charged from the icker scoops as they are turned 9 machine in its normal picking operation carries up-sidedown at the beginning of the top out the desirable picking method hereinbefore stretches of these carriers. The endless carriers outlined.- It will also be understood that various To this end an internal ombusti n engine h to scope of" this invention or from the desirable been illustrated as mounted upon the support method] of picking hereinbefore described.

and having its driving pulley connected through la m:

the belt 3| to a countershaft pulley 32 The shaft 15A machine of the class described, comprisand for this purpose the shaft 35 is shown as proof said scoops always at said lower stretch and vided with a belt pulley over which passes a facing forwardly and right-side-up and at probelt 4| engaging about a pulley 42 on the axle 2. gressively lower elevations starting from the for propelled forwardly. at about sixteen times the 30 beneath the upper stretch of-said carrier to rewardly by the motion of the endless carriers ing a support, a wheeled axle carrying said suppresent toward their upper ends the tangled scoops always at said lower stretch and facing mass which the picker first engaged. Following forwardy and right-side-up and at progressively after th s first picker scoop, a second picker .lower levels rearwardly starting from the for- O P indicated at a-is e g ged in the bushes ward portion ,of said carrier, means positioned in a-vdeeper zone and follows behind the forbeneath theupper stretch of said carrier to re- .ward picker scoop, gradually moving upward-as ceive berries from said scoops as said scoops well as fo w y. picking the berries within the are, inverted 1 on said return stretch, means zone 1nd1cated between the brokenlines a and-b for supporting the rear portion of said support,

nd i e o a deeper ne tha that o ed and m ans on said support for driving said carout of its picking zone and through the bush ends out by the forward picker scoop, until it passes the ,berries from ,a still deeper zone than the sec-' ground Supported. game convey-Or carried by thereof. It will be noted that as each of the pick ly and inwardly W the 510138 of Said through which it may pass without exercising 111g"upward1y andforwardly and said frame in viously been picked from at the higher levels by preceding scoops in said lower stretch.

4. A cranberry pickingmachine, comprising a ground supported frame, a conveyor carried by said frame and having a lower stretch upwardly inclined, and a return stretch, a plurality of scoops provided with comb elements extending upwardly and forwardly with the slope of said stretch and carried by said conveyor from adjacent to the ground upwardly throughout said lower stretch, and means for driving saidconveyor with the scoops in said lower stretch moving upwardly and forwardly and said frame in of said lower stretch, successively lower the machine, the lower levels at the forward direction whereby said scoops pick from levels from front to back of bushes being 'pickedirom at the the lower portion previously been picked from at the I by preceding scoops in said lower stretch, and, a receptacle carried by said frame and positioned to receive berries from said scoops on their backward motions in inverted position in said return stretch.

1 his ARTHUR M. X LOBDELL.

' mark of said lower stretch having higher levels 

